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TIME: Why do you oppose the Egyptian government of President Hosni Mubarak...
Rahman: Hosni Mubarak rules Egypt by fire and iron. He has turned Egypt into a police state. The emergency law in Egypt has been in effect since the first day Mubarak took power. Mubarak knows that if he tried to rule Egypt under civil law, he would not remain in power for one hour...
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has reportedly offeredSaddam Husseinpolitical asylum in the hope that the rogue regime in Baghdad might be replaced. An advance copy of Saturday's Al-Hayat, a London-based Arab newspaper, obtained by the Associated Press quotes Mubarak explaining his offer as "a solution to the problem of the Iraqi people and to prevent a bloodbath in Iraq."World editor James Collinssays the plan probably doesn't mean Saddam will leave Iraq anytime soon. "Given current circumstances, it's not a highly meaningful offer.The cracks in the Baghdad regimeare widening, but Saddam isn't that desperate...
...Reported by Adam Cohen and Mubarak Dahir/Philadelphia
While in Algeria the junta brazenly ignored the popular vote in democratic elections, in Egypt the dictatorial regime of Mubarak, who has been in power for 14 years, launched massive pre-emptive strikes against similar rising political forces in the form of Islamic movements. This initial action led to cycles of violence by the government and opposition. The long-term interests of the West will be served not by inventing an Islamic bogeyman in another sovereign nation and propping up authoritarian regimes, but by pressuring these so-called allies to begin to practice unadulterated democracy along with a spirit...